Jailed, family who conned family war veteran out of £274,000

THREE “ruthless” women who conned an 83-year-old war veteran out of his life savings have been jailed.

Angela Davis was one of the cuplrits behind the conning of the war veteran []

Mahletchimi Ramudu, 53, and her daughters Angela Davis, 27, and Jessica Mahatevan, 18, posed as concerned neighbours to swindle Second World War decoder Stanley Flack out of £274,000.

Once they had won the dementia sufferer’s trust, they changed the times on clocks in his home so they could turn up in the middle of the night to go through his paperwork.

They washed, shaved and dressed the pensioner, from Cambridge, before frog-marching him to the bank where he was conned into transferring the money to them.

Cambridge Crown Court heard they went on a £21,000 two-day spending spree with money flowing from cash machines like “confetti”. The veteran has not seen a penny of the remainder of his savings which are believed to have been stashed in India.

It is unthinkable people would treat an elderly war hero like this. I hope we manage to get the money back for him

Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge

Jailing the trio, Judge Gareth Hawkesworth described Ramudu as “the architect of this fraud and the guiding light”. He said: “This sicken- ing and ruthless fraud was committed seemingly in an unbelievable moral vacuum.

It was a gross and unforgiveable breach of trust on the most vulnerable of people and none of you have shown a glimmer of remorse – only a self-pity for the situation you are in.”

Ramudu was jailed for five years, Davis for three and Mahatevan was sentenced to 18 months in a youth offenders’ institution.

Timothy Parry, of Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: “As numbers with dementia spiral towards one million, it’s a concern many more could be left prone to such scams.”

Julian Huppert, MP for Cambridge, said: “It is unthinkable people would treat an elderly war hero like this. I hope we manage to get the money back for him.”

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